Umbrella.



No. 735,711. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

UMBRELLA.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

I UNITED STATES Patented August 11, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

'UMBRELLA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,711, dated August 11, 1903. Application filed Tune 9, 1902. Serial No. 110,875. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JAMES OLEGG, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 169 High street, Christchurch, in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrellas and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

Frequent annoyance and inconvenience arise to persons carrying umbrellas from the fact that when a strong wind is blowing the umbrellas are held in such a position to shield off the rain that two persons approaching from opposite directions cannot see each other, with the result that they collide and damage the umbrellas. To avoid such collisions, it has been necessary to raise the umbrella repeatedly to look out for objects ahead;

but by my invention such raising of the umbrella is rendered unnecessaryand a person is enabled to see objects in front of him without having to lift the umbrella.

My invention consists in making one or more apertures in the covering of the umbrella and inserting in the apertures sheets of flexible transparent material, such as celluloid, which may be fixed in the aperture by cement and a rim or mount of flexible material. V

The invention may be applied toparasols and sunshades, so that Women may be able to look ahead when holding the parasol or sunshade in front of their faces, and the apertures may be worked into a design to correspond with the ornamentation of the parasol or the like.

Figure 1 on the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of an umbrella fitted with the invent-ion; Fig. 2, a detail View of the invention on alarger scale; and Fig. 3, a section of the same on line A A, Fig. 2.

l is a sheet of celluloid or other flexible tgansparent material.

2 isarim of celluloid or othersuitableflexible material.

3 represents screws securing the two parts of the rim together.

The rim may be made of flexible material, such as india-rubber, in which'case the parts would be cemented together. All the parts are flexible, and they may be rolled up with the umbrella in such a manner that the presence of the said rim and transparent sheet will not be detected.

The sheet 1 is cemented over a hole in the umbrella-covering 4 and then securely held by the rim 2.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An umbrella provided with a window consisting of a sheet of flexible transparent material, and a rim of flexible material secured to the covering of the umbrella, whereby the covering and secured window may be rolled, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES OLEGG.

Witnesses:

A. H. HART, L. B. SMITH. 

